London Zoo: [Sink] What Established Fictional Universe Do You Want to Live In?

HHHmmmmm. So many of the stories I have enjoyed actually take place in somewhere really shitty. So, as many have mentioned, as long as there is a built in badass factor, and I'm not a peon crushed under the weight of Lord Ruler or such...

@CrusherJoe: You don't really want to live in Star Trek. You'd never know how far away anything was and every other day you'd find you had Subspace stuck in one orifice or another. Not to mention the pain of waking up in the morning to discover your toaster has become sentient and now you have to discuss the ethics of stuffing bread in it.

I find the universe of Richard Morgan's "Kovacs" trilogy to be presented in a way that I find irresistable, returning to it regularly. I really don't think I'd want to live there though, so would have to join in with the general consensus and go for the Culture. Would love to live on an orbital plate or be a drone or have my own knife missile parked in a nice bit of jewelry and well, you know... drug glands.